I'm a Trading Application Support Engineer at Cantor Fitzgerald, working alongside the trading desks every day to keep execution moving. I got my start in financial technology in market data engineering at Parameta Solutions — but I've been learning finance since I was young. First bank account at 7 (shout out TD Bank), first stock bought at 13 — every birthday dollar went into Sony.
I still love learning new things about the finance and technology worlds — and when I'm not working or Dooming the U.S. economy, I tend to experiment with things on my home server: the very machine running the website you're on right now.
When I'm not stuck in the 9-to-5 routine and the gym afterwards, I follow my more wanderlusty side and backpack across the world. I've now hit 25+ countries, with no plans of stopping soon. I love learning about other cultures, living in other communities, and sharing a broken-English conversation with someone I happened to cross paths with in a town I can't pronounce.
Speaking of languages — I found some free time and with it I've been studying Chinese (currently HSK2, aiming for HSK3 before 2027). I chose Chinese because it's another impossible challenge, a Sisyphean task I can always sink more time into, learn for hundreds of hours, and still never be all that great at. Which is how I view much of the work I do: improving and learning is the fun part. Being perfect is never the goal — the pursuit of it is.
Timeline
B.S.
Graduated in 2020, straight into a market that had just stopped hiring.
Pricing Analyst
Owned data models across CDS, LATAM bonds, US Treasuries and MBS. Started automating the parts of the job that were the same every day, which is how the engineering began.
Data Engineering Professional Certificate
ETL in Python against REST and HTML sources, shell scripting and cron for scheduling, and a lot of SQL across multi-table schemas. First time I built a pipeline end to end rather than a script.
Junior Data Engineer / Market Data Support Analyst
Moved onto the engineering side. ETL delivery to external clients, real-time stream monitoring, and deployment support across Linux and Windows with Geneos ITRS.
Certified Cloud Practitioner
Core services, architecture, security and pricing — with practical work in S3, EC2, Glue, Athena and IAM alongside it.
Homelab
Bought a mini PC to run a media server. It became five LXC containers, a data warehouse, a monitoring stack, and the infrastructure behind everything in Projects.
Three pipelines in production
Housing affordability, FINRA 144A trade activity, and PolyTracker — all running on a schedule, all serving live dashboards, all on hardware I can reach out and touch.
At a glance
Get in touch
Hiring, collaborating, or just want to compare homelab notes — either address reaches me.